What's this? A current-generation AT&T phone and its year-old sibling getting updated on the same day? We have an embarrassment of riches, folks. Just a few hours after the Lollipop over-the-air update for the Galaxy Note 4 started on Ma Bell, the Galaxy Note 3 (from 2013) is getting the same treatment. AT&T's support page says that this is Android 5.0, build number N900AUCUEOC1.

As AT&T does with all their updates, the OTA will only start on Wi-Fi (and not that mobile connection that you're paying them to provide). The OTA file is a massive 1.2 gigabytes, and whatever server AT&T uses for these things probably has some tiny Flintstones dinosaur manually pushing data packets down a CAT-5 cable. It's slow, is what I'm saying here. If you happen to get the update alert in one of the early batches, you might want to let it come down overnight.

The update message doesn't mention anything beyond the standard Lollipop features, though Galaxy Note 4 users mentioned some additional downloads for Samsung's voice recognition software. As always, don't be surprised if it takes a few days for the update to appear in your notification bar - if you simply can't wait, check XDA, SamMobile, or your user forum of choice for a manual download.

Comments

Lawrence

I have the international version, I haven't installed lollipop just because the nasty memory leak in all lollipop builts in All phones.
What is wrong with Google, they are more worried about the animations in the play store than releasing the fix for the memory leak.

Soto

Just do it. I don't see any issue on my moto e 2nd gen. But, my nexus 9... That's a different story. Lag, redraws, all that good stuff.

BetterWithRoot

VZW Moto X 2nd Gen, 5.0.

I have found my lollipop build to be decent. I am not experiencing the memory leaks I keep reading about. I guess what i am saying is that not all phones/builds suffer the leak.

Zsolt V

He said it was on all Lollipop builds and all phones. Clearly one of you is lying. (I guess the OP).

ProductFRED

It's not on Samsung's TW ROMs from what I've read. The memory leak is caused by the boot animation not being cleared from memory (or something along those lines). Touchwiz ROMs use the proprietary QMG format instead of the normal animation format, so the issue doesn't exist. I could be wrong, but that's what a developer on XDA said when he tested for the bug on various devices. I'm running it on my T-Mobile Note 3. My phone feels like an entirely new device. Seriously, just install it. It'll blow your mind.

Lawrence

Thank you, then I will upgrade this weekend. (Even though kitkat is stable and I have awesome battery life)
I guess sometimes is good not to have a Nexus Phone!

ProductFRED

For what it's worth, if your phone has an unlocked/unlockable bootloader (my N900T does) and you are able to flash a custom recovery like TWRP, you CAN go back to your KitKat ROM if you made a backup. You can also just flash any custom KitKat ROM. Even ODIN might work, though it can't rollback your modem and bootloader (which doesn't matter).

But yeah, so far Lollipop is fantastic. Everything is extremely fast and fluid and apps open almost instantly now (like the notorious dialer/contacts app).

Lawrence

Awesome, can't wait to try it. As you said, I'll keep a backup of my kitkat setup (which includes many mods) just in case..

Finally! They have to figure out a better way to get us these updates. It takes forever.

Zsolt V

Seems completely reasonable to me.

Smartss

Noooooo S5

Wim

And Verizon is still dinking around trying to get their crapware to work.
Even if vzw Note 3 gets Lollipop I'll hold off until I can get root.

gotitogether

The Verizon Note 3 is definitely getting the Lollipop update, but if you're gonna hold off on updating until a root method is found, you might not wanna hold your breath too long, as you may pass out... Lol

tenki

And im still here one my 1+1 eating a KitKat...

Antoine Martin

Patience... 3 days :D

Jonathan McHatton

HTC One M8? Come on AT&T.

Marlon “Virus” Jones

Any idea on the GS5?

Ixil

When the s6 gets 5.2.

Zsolt V

Which is when? Tomorrow?

DemandTrialByCombat

Still no tap n pay on google wallet smh!

Tanner D

A little early for April Fool's ATT...now wheres my GS5 lollipop

thomas

my galaxy note 3 update to lollibob crashed during installation. Now I have to wait another day to check for update.
status says my software is "up-to-date" at android 4.4.4. Anyone has a similar problem?

Mi Lo

Yes, same here Thomas! I tried through Kreis and it's the same thing, showing no update.

YAY!
Frankly, I have never wanted to root -- but I'm desperate to get off Lollipop! (At least, until I have the option to revert back to black backgrounds!)

Christian Hoeffel

I updated last night, having a couple issues:

1. Phone is always searching for location. Anyone else have this issue?
2. It says that my Google contacts are synced, but when I go to the contacts app, it says on contacts. What gives? Anyone else having his issue too?